In his article, Bruno Latour sets out to determine exactly what a network is. He explains that the term ‘network’ is misunderstood, that the network does not describe an infrastructural setup like a telephone network or subway.

He defines the characteristics of a network as distant, having compulsory paths and having strategically positioned nodes – quite different from the  previously outlined understanding of the network through the metaphor of a telephone network.

Whilst the Actor-Network Theory does not subscribe to ‘vague all encompassing sociological terms’, it is aimed at describing the very nature of societies.

Latour goes on to describe the network as a live entity. That the nodes of the networks have an infinite number of dimensions and connections – that they are versatile and are not restricted to interacting in a certain way.

After about the 3rd page, my brain started to hurt and I felt like I was trying to comprehend the 4th dimension… Cheers Latour